Where is the partition table written? Does overwriting the MBR also kill your whole harddrive (making everything seem like it vanished)?

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Wed, 30 Sep 2009 16:19:08 +0000http://www.virtualroadside.com/blog/index.php/2007/11/11/inspired-by-xkcd-mbr-love-note/#comment-26688Jorge, you’re a douche for installing it on her computer, you really should have just left it, the only way to recover this easilly is to put your windows disk in and use the recovery tools on it, they “should” re-write the MBR to the boot sector, if not then you will have to re-install windows, and again, you’re a douche
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Tue, 29 Sep 2009 19:16:43 +0000http://www.virtualroadside.com/blog/index.php/2007/11/11/inspired-by-xkcd-mbr-love-note/#comment-26636SERIOUSLY MY MOM IS GOING TO BE SO PISSEDDDD!!!
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Tue, 29 Sep 2009 19:12:45 +0000http://www.virtualroadside.com/blog/index.php/2007/11/11/inspired-by-xkcd-mbr-love-note/#comment-26635I JUST RAN THIS ON MY COMPUTER AND NOW WHEN I TURN IT ON NOTHING HAPPENS!!! HELPPPPP
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Fri, 18 Sep 2009 04:52:39 +0000http://www.virtualroadside.com/blog/index.php/2007/11/11/inspired-by-xkcd-mbr-love-note/#comment-26002I rather think you shouldn’t be playing with atomic bombs *inside* the Nevada Desert…
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Fri, 30 Jan 2009 16:23:40 +0000http://www.virtualroadside.com/blog/index.php/2007/11/11/inspired-by-xkcd-mbr-love-note/#comment-17571For anyone curious about playing around with this, you *MIGHT* be able to get away with it on a normal VirtualBox installation, but BE VERY CAREFUL, especially if there is important info on the computer or virtual computer. In general, you should not be playing with this on any remotely important machine, just as you shouldn’t be playing with atomic bombs outside the Nevada Desert.
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Wed, 31 Dec 2008 15:44:20 +0000http://www.virtualroadside.com/blog/index.php/2007/11/11/inspired-by-xkcd-mbr-love-note/#comment-17067The encoded answer to question 4 is wrong. You swapped the low and high byte. It’s easy to remember this because in NASM’s alternative hex representation (appending ‘h’) which requires a leading decimal digit, the signature word does require a leading zero. (Unless you’re working on a big-endian machine, but you can’t write programs for any big-endian CPU using NASM.)
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Sat, 27 Dec 2008 07:29:24 +0000http://www.virtualroadside.com/blog/index.php/2007/11/11/inspired-by-xkcd-mbr-love-note/#comment-16991Oh martin I will see if I can implement your idea
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Sat, 27 Dec 2008 07:27:57 +0000http://www.virtualroadside.com/blog/index.php/2007/11/11/inspired-by-xkcd-mbr-love-note/#comment-16990Ya, clamav says that this isnt a virus. Maybe that warning of yours should be a bit bigger for the noobs who dont know what an MBR is(let alone how to fix one).
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Sat, 15 Nov 2008 10:15:18 +0000http://www.virtualroadside.com/blog/index.php/2007/11/11/inspired-by-xkcd-mbr-love-note/#comment-15851@Joe:
What do the “linus” books say about writing “Sweet nothings” in all your configuration files?
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